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In early still lifes like this one, he incorporated motifs common to 17th-century Dutch and Flemish works: the foreshortened knife, the handle of which protrudes over the table\u2019s edge; the overturned glass; and the remains of a meal. The work\u2019s unusual shape reveals its original function as a screen for the opening of a fireplace. Viewed at floor level, the screen would have conveyed the illusion of a table recessed into the fireplace.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"96.8 \u00d7 123.5 cm (38 1\/8 \u00d7 48 5\/16 in.); Framed: 126.7 \u00d7 154.4 \u00d7 14 cm (49 7\/8 \u00d7 60 3\/4 \u00d7 5 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":123,"height":96,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":14,"width":154,"height":126,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"P[ierre] J[ean] Mariette, Ab\u00e9c\u00e9dario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes in\u00e9dites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes, vol. 1 in Archives de l\u2019art fran\u00e7ais, 2, Paris, 1851-53, p. 357.\n\nW. B\u00fcrger [Th\u00e9ophile Etienne Joseph Thor\u00e9], \u201cExposition de tableaux de l\u2019\u00e9cole fran\u00e7aise, tir\u00e9s de collections d\u2019amateurs,\u201d part 3, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1st. ser., 8 (1860), p. 234.  \n\nTh\u00e9odore  Lejeune, Guide th\u00e9orique et pratique de l\u2019amateur de tableaux: Etudes sur les imitateurs et les copistes des ma\u00eetres de toutes les \u00e9coles dont les oeuvres forment la base ordinaire des galeries, vol. 1, Paris, 1864, p. 440.\n\nCharles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les \u00e9coles, part 3, Ecole fran\u00e7aise, vol. 2, Paris, 1865, Chardin p. 16.  \n\nPhilippe Burty, \u201cProfils d\u2019amateurs, I, Laurent Laperlier,\u201d L\u2019Art 16 (1879), p. 148.  \n\nEdmond and Jules de Goncourt, \u201cArt du dix-huitieme si\u00e8cles, 3rd ed., vol. 1, Paris, 1880, p. 73.\n\nArmand Dayot and Jean Guiffrey, J-B. Sim\u00e9on Chardin, Paris, [1907], pp. 36-37, no. 351, p. 54, no. 19, pp. 82-83, no. 165.\n\nArmand Dayot and L\u00e9andre Vaillat, L\u2019Oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, [1907], p. IX, no. 53, ill.\n\nJean Guiffrey, \u201cL\u2019Exposition Chardin-Fragonard,\u201d La Revue de l\u2019art ancien et moderne 22 (1907), pp. 95 ill., 102.\n\nPierre de Nolhac, \u201cFragonard et Chardin,\u201d Les Arts 16 (July1907), pp. 42-43.\n\nMaurice Tourneaux, \u201cExposition Chardin et Fragonard,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3rd ser., 38 (1907), pp. 97-98 ill.\n\nJean Guiffrey, Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019oeuvre peint et dessin\u00e9 de J.-B. Sim\u00e9on Chardin, Paris, 1908, pp. 36-37, no. 351, p. 54, no. 19, pp. 82-83, no. 165.\n\nEdmond Pilon, Chardin, Paris, [1909], p. 167.\n\nHerbert E.A. Furst, Chardin, London, [1911], pp. 30, 127.  \n\nSeymour de Ricci, \u201cLes Ventes,\u201d Beaux-arts 3, 13, (1925), p. 216, no. 125. \n\nGabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, vol. 1, Peintures, Paris, 1926, pp. 31-33, ill.\n\nGeorges Wildenstein, Chardin, Paris, 1933, p. 235, no. 1057, fig. 159.\n\nJean Babelon, review of Georges Wildenstein, Chardin in Beaux-Arts, n.s. 72, 50 (1933), p. 1, ill. \n\nAlfred M. Frankfurter, \u201cThe Dix-Huiti\u00e8me in Full Glory:  French Masters in the David-Weill Collection,\u201d Art News 36, 6 (1937), pp. 13 ill., 22.\n\nDoris Brian, \u201cSources of Modern Painting: N.Y. Sees a Notable Show from New England,\u201d Art News 37, 31 (1937), pp. 10 ill., 20.\n\nHenry de Courcy May, \u201cThe Spirit of the Eighteenth Century,\u201dArt News 41, 15 (1942), p. 15, ill.\n\nArt News 44, 7 (1945), p. 15, ill.\n\nErnst Goldschmidt, Jean-Baptiste-Sim\u00e9on Chardin, Stockholm, 1945, p. 116, fig. 47.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cThe White Tablecloth by Chardin,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, 4 (1945), pp. 50-53 (ill., cover).\n\n\u201cRecent Important Acquisitions of American Coollections\u2014The White Tablecloth by Chardin,\u201dArt Quarterly 8 (1945), pp. 163-67, ill.\n\nFrederick Taubes, \u201cPictorial Composition,\u201d American Artist 10 (October 1946), p. 30, ill.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1948, pp. 31-32, ill.\n\nMichel Florisoone, La Peinture fran\u00e7aise: Le dix-huiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, Paris, 1948, pl. 72.\n\nFrancis Jourdain, Chardin, 1699-1779, Paris, [1949], pl. 44.\n\nBernard Denvir, Chardin, New York, 1950, pl. 32.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1952, n.pag.ill.\n\nAline B. Louchheim, \u201cA New Yorker Visits the Art Institute,\u201d Art Institute Quarterly 46 (1952), pp. 23-24, ill.\n\nCharles Sterling, La Nature morte de l\u2019antiquit\u00e9 \u00e0 nos jours, Paris, 1952, p. 78, pl. 60.\n\nG[eorges] de Lastic Saint Jal, \u201cDes D\u00e9couvertes \u00e0 faire les devants de chemin\u00e9e,\u201d Connaissance  des arts 39 (May 15, 1955), pp. 29,  31, ill.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, [1956], pp. 31-32, ill.\n\nSt\u00e9phane Faniel, ed., French Art of the Eighteenth Century, Collection Connaissance des Arts 1 New York, 1957, p. 21, ill.\n\nJames Barrelet, \u201cChardin du point de vue de la verrerie,\u201d Gazette de Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 53 (1959), pp. 309, 311.\n\nGeorges Wildenstein, \u201cLe D\u00e9cor de la vie de Chardin d\u2019apr\u00e8s ses tableaux,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 53 (1959), p. 100, fig. 5.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, pp, 75-76, 229 ill.\n\nGeorges Wildenstein, Chardin, Zurich, 1963, pp. 149-50, no. 73, ill.; rev. ed. by Daniel Wildenstien, trans. by Stuart Gilbert, Greenwich, Conn., 1969, p. 157, no. 73, fig. 34.\n\nRen\u00e9 Huyghe, La Peinture fran\u00e7aise des XVIIe et XVIIIe si\u00e8cles, Paris, 1965, p. 78, ill.\n\nViktor N. Lazarev, Jean-Baptiste Sim\u00e9on Chardin, tr. By Monica Huchek, Dresden, 1966, p. 17, pl. 8.\n\nSacheverell Sitwell, \u201cThe Pleasures of the Senses,\u201d Apollo 87 (February 1968), p. 132.\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, p. 262, ill.\n\nDewey F. Mosby, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860, vol. 1, New York and London, 1977, p. 57.  \n\nGerrit Henry, \u201cNew York Reviews: The Object as Subject,\u201d Art News 74, 5 (1975), p. 92.\n\nMichel Far\u00e9 and Fabrice Far\u00e9, La Vie silencieuse en France: La Nature morte au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle, Fribourg and Paris, 1976, pp. 154, 156.  \n\nAxelle de Gaigneron, \u201cUn Nouveau Regard sur les natures mortes de Chardin,\u201d Connaissance des arts no. 323 (1979), p. 33.\n\nJohn D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979.\n\nPierre Rosenberg, Chardin 1699-1779, exh.cat. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1979, pp. 10, 194, under no. 54.\n\nMiriam Milman, Les Illusions de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9: Le Trompe-l\u2019oeil, Geneva, 1982, pp. 90 ill., 124.\n\nPierre Rosenberg, L\u2019Opera completa di Chardin, Classici dell\u2019arte, London, 1985, p. 85, no. 78 ill.\n\nPhilip Conisbee, Chardin, London, 1985, pp. 94, 106-7, fig. 88.\n\nGeorges Steiner, review of Philip Conisbee, Chardin, in The New Yorker, November 17, 1986, p. 146.\n\nChristopher Wright, The World\u2019s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day:  A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide, New York, 1991, vol. 1, p. 434, vol. 2, pp. 62, 677.\n\nJames Yood, Feasting:  A Celebration of Food in Art, New York, 1992, p. 12 (detail), no. 10, ill.\n\nSusan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1996, pp. 24-28, ill.\n\nPierre Rosenberg and Renaud Temperini, Chardin, suivi du Catalogue des oeuvres (Paris, 1999), p. 223, no. 79, fig. 79.\n\nJean Sim\u00e9on Chardin 1699-1779, Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, 2012, p. 87, fig. 1.\n\nThomas Crow, \"Chardin at the Edge of Belief:  Overlooked Issues of Religion and Dissent in Eighteenth-Century French Painting\" in French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century, Philip Conisbee, ed., Studies in the History of Art 72, Symposium Papers 49 (Washington, D.C., 2007), pp. 91-101, figs. 2 and 6.\n\nAlice Insley and Martin Myrone, eds., Hogarth and Europe, exh. cat. 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